Problem in searching with Greek accented character

  • Resolved Cartographer

    (@cartographer)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi and Congratulations for this amazing plugin!

    I would like to point a crucial issue when using Greek accented characters in searching.

    Both accented and non-accented characters should have the same behaviour – result in searching.

    In TablePress if someone search for Αργος he doesn’t get as a result Άργος as it should.
    He needs to search adding the accent.

    Regards,
    Nikos

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    I see what you mean, but unfortunately, this is nothing that I can influence 🙁
    The search comes from the external DataTables JavaScript library from http://www.datatables.net. Therefore, this would have to be changed there, but from what I know, the search uses exact string matching, as everything else would be very difficult in JavaScript.
    Sorry for not having a working solution here 🙁

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Cartographer

    (@cartographer)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Unfortunately, I thought that it was something that could be solved easily. Character mapping or something.

    In wordpress default search everything works properly. I guess it is something taotally different there, right?

    Regards,
    Nikos

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Nikos,

    yes, it’s very different 🙁 The regular WordPress search uses a mySQL query, and apparently mySQL does such a character mapping/conversion in it’s search automaticallly.
    The search that we are talking about is however in JavaScript, and that doesn’t have such a mechanism, from what I know 🙁

    As a hacky work around, you could maybe add the alternative versions (without the accents) in an additional column in the table, and then hide that column from the user with some small CSS code like

    .tablepress-id-123 .column-5 {
  display: none;
}

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Cartographer

    (@cartographer)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Tobias,

    I understand.

    Your tip is very clever!!! Thank you very much for your time and congratulations. Wish you the best!

    Thread Starter Cartographer

    (@cartographer)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Tobias,

    Sorry but could you please advice me what should I write to their support forum (http://datatables.net) to inform them about this issue. I mean how to express it as I am not a developer.

    I think that it’s important and should be solved.

    P.S. Your solution works!!! (at least for now).

    Regards,
    Nikos

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    good to hear that this trick works! 🙂

    In their forums, just describe a few examples, just as above. That should be sufficient.

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

    Thread Starter Cartographer

    (@cartographer)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Ok I will try to describe it!

    Rated!

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks, I really appreciate it!

    If you find a solution, please let me know!

    Regards,
    Tobias

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